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Part I: Basic Training
you start the application, however, you won’t encounter most of them until
and unless you want to. So for the new user, and for the early stages of your
database development, you’ve still got the same solid and dependable tools
Access always offered for building tables, setting up reports and forms, and
creating the relationships between your tables that make the database every-
thing you need it to be.
Reach out with SharePoint
What the heck is SharePoint? You may be asking that, along with lots of other
people who’ve been seeing the product name and hearing how it provides
access to your Access data from anywhere — using desktop applications, a
Web browser, or even your phone. Well, it’s a Microsoft software product
that does all that and more, helping you manage your documents and col-
laborate with co-workers via the company network. Simply click the Save
and Publish command in Backstage view (see Figure 1-8), and you’re on your
way to publishing your database to SharePoint, which means you can access
it from pretty much everywhere, including that beach in Maui. (On second
thought, some places should probably be declared Data-Free Zones.)
Figure 1-8:
The Save
and Publish
command in
Backstage
view offers
choices
for… you
guessed
it… saving
and publish-
ing your
database.
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